Data Engineer

About AvePoint: 

Securing the Future. AvePoint is a global leader in data management and data governance, and over 21,000 customers worldwide rely on our solutions to modernize the digital workplace across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and other collaboration environments. AvePoint’s global channel partner program includes over 3,500 managed service providers, value added resellers and systems integrators, with our solutions available in more than 100 cloud marketplaces. To learn more, visit www.avepoint.com.

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About the role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Big Data Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate must have a minimum of 4 years of experience managing data engineering jobs in big data environment e.g., Cloudera Data Platform. Overall experience can be 4 to 10 years. Consultant/ Senior Consultant preferably. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the data ingestion and processing jobs as per business requirements. Candidate will also be integrating data sets to provide seamless data access to users.

Key responsibilities: 

• Analyze the Authority’s data needs and document the requirements.
• Refine data collection/consumption by migrating data collection to more efficient channels.
• Plan, design and implement data engineering jobs and reporting solutions to meet the analytical needs.
• Develop test plan and scripts for system testing, support user acceptance testing.
• Work with the Authority’s technical teams to ensure smooth deployment and adoption of new solution.
• Ensure the smooth operations and service level of IT solutions.
• Support production issues - Track record in implementing systems with high availability, high performance, high security. 

The ideal candidate has:

• Good understanding and completion of projects using waterfall/Agile methodology.
• Good understanding of analytics and data warehouse implementations.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues ranging from system resource to application stack traces.
• Strong SQL, data modelling and data analysis skills are a must.
• Hands-on experience in big data engineering jobs using Python, PySpark, Linux, and ETL tools like Informatica.
• Track record in implementing systems using Hive, Impala and Cloudera Data Platform will be preferred.
• Hands-on experience in DevOps deployment and data virtualization tools like Denodo will be preferred.
• Understanding/ Hands on experience of reporting or visualization tool like SAP BO and Tableau will be beneficial but not required.
• Passion for automation, standardization, and best practices. 
• Good written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, ability to understand the business requirement, communicate confidently with stakeholders.   

 

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